What Crittenton Children's Center does

Crittenton Children's Center, formally Saint Luke's Hospital Crittenton Children's Center, is a behavioral health facility for children and adolescents located at 10918 Elm Ave., Kansas City, Missouri, operating 24 hours per day. It is a nonprofit entity housed within Saint Luke's Health System, which itself sits inside the BJC HealthCare integrated delivery network (headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri). The facility delivers a continuum of clinical services, including acute inpatient hospitalization for children in mental health crisis, long-term residential psychiatric care for high-risk adolescents, an outpatient therapy clinic, an adolescent substance use program, evidence-based in-home counseling, and foster care and adoption support.

The organization's signature offering is Trauma Smart®, a proprietary, registered trauma intervention model developed in-house for children from preschool through 12th grade who have experienced complex or repetitive trauma. Trauma Smart® is implemented not only inside Crittenton's clinical programs but also externally in schools, Head Start programs, and other community organizations across the Kansas City region and beyond, and is operated under its own dedicated web presence. Crittenton has earned Magnet® Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, signaling nursing excellence, and its residential and acute inpatient programs have reportedly exceeded national and local quality benchmarks for five consecutive years.

Crittenton generates revenue through healthcare service delivery billed to insurance, Medicaid, and government children's services funds, supplemented by county-level funding partnerships with the Children's Services Fund of Jackson County and the Clay County Children's Services Fund. Patient acquisition flows through Saint Luke's referral pathways, school and community partnerships, news/media visibility, and direct community outreach, consistent with a community-led go-to-motion rather than a transactional sales model. No revenue figures, headcount, funding rounds, or M&A activity are disclosed in the available source material.

Name

Crittenton Children's Center

Legal name

Saint Luke's Hospital Crittenton Children's Center

Website

https://crittentonkc.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Crittenton Children's Center is a nonprofit pediatric behavioral health facility in Kansas City, Missouri, operating within Saint Luke's Health System and BJC HealthCare to deliver inpatient, residential, outpatient, in-home, and substance use services for youth. Its proprietary Trauma Smart® program extends trauma-informed care into schools and community organizations regionally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Behavioral Health Services

NAICS

Residential Mental Health and Substance Abuse Facilities (62322), Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Facilities (6232), Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Children’s Hospitals & Pediatric Health Systems (HLAFAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pediatric Specialty Care Centers (e.g., cardiology, oncology, neurology) (HLAFAJAH), Family Resource Centers & Wraparound Support Services (EDACALAH)

Keywords

• Youth behavioral health
• Residential treatment
• Trauma intervention
• Inpatient psychiatric care
• Child mental health

Headquarters

HQ city

Kansas City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: As a behavioral health facility within Saint Luke's Hospital network, Crittenton generates revenue through healthcare service delivery including inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, outpatient therapy, and community-based counseling. Services are billed through insurance, Medicaid, and potentially supported by children's services funds.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Crittenton Children's Center is a behavioral health facility providing inpatient hospitalization, residential treatment, outpatient therapy, adolescent substance use treatment, in-home counseling, and foster care/adoption services for children and adolescents in the Kansas City region. The center also developed and licenses Trauma Smart®, a proprietary trauma intervention model used in schools and community organizations. Services are delivered by multidisciplinary treatment teams using evidence-based therapies and are supported by Saint Luke's Health System and BJC HealthCare.

Product overview

Crittenton Children's Center, part of Saint Luke's Health System, is a behavioral health provider offering a coordinated portfolio of residential and acute inpatient programs for youth in the Kansas City community. The organization provides a continuum of care including Inpatient Hospitalization, Residential Treatment, Outpatient Clinic services, Adolescent Substance Use treatment, In-Home Counseling, and Foster Care and Adoption services. Its signature offering is Trauma Smart®, a proprietary trauma intervention model for children in preschool through 12th grade. The center uses evidence-based therapies and has achieved Magnet® Recognition for nursing excellence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Trauma Smart®: A trauma intervention model developed by Crittenton to help children in preschool through 12th grade heal from complex or repetitive trauma. Used by schools, Head Start programs, and other organizations across the Kansas City region.

Products and services

• Inpatient Hospitalization Short-term care for children in immediate mental health crisis, providing acute behavioral health treatment in a safe, supervised environment.
• Residential Treatment Long-term psychiatric care for adolescents who display high-risk behaviors despite previous treatment attempts, offering sustained therapeutic intervention.
• Outpatient Clinic Evidence-based therapy for children with mental health disorders or who have been exposed to trauma, providing outpatient behavioral health services.
• Adolescent Substance Use Program Proven, evidence-based help for teens struggling with substance abuse, and support for their families.
• In-Home Counseling Evidence-based therapy and support for children and their families delivered in their home environment. Supported by The Clay County Children's Services Fund.
• Foster Care and Adoption Services Services helping children in need find stable and loving homes, supporting the foster care and adoption process.
• Trauma Smart® A highly-successful, proprietary trauma intervention model developed by Crittenton to help children in preschool through 12th grade heal from complex or repetitive trauma. Offered to schools, Head Start programs, and other organizations across the Kansas City region and beyond.

Quantifiable outcome

• Crittenton's residential and acute inpatient programs have consistently exceeded national and local quality benchmarks over the past five years

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Children's Services Fund of Jackson CountycoreOthersSeveral of Saint Luke's Crittenton Children's Center programs are supported by the Children's Services Fund of Jackson County. This fund strengthens families and protects the mental health, safety, and emotional well-being of children in Jackson County.
• Children's Services Fund of Clay CountycoreOthersThe In-Home Counseling Services program at Crittenton is supported by The Clay County Children's Services Fund. This program provides evidence-based therapy and support for children and their families in their home environment.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• McLean Hospital: McLean Hospital is a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital with adolescent residential and inpatient programs. While primarily an adult institution, its pediatric behavioral health division competes for higher-acuity adolescent referrals in a similar quality tier to Crittenton.
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: Cincinnati Children's is a major regional pediatric health system with a dedicated psychiatric unit and broad behavioral health offerings for children and adolescents. It overlaps with Crittenton's services within a much larger pediatric delivery network.
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is a large nonprofit pediatric system with a Marcus Autism Center and dedicated behavioral health services for children. It represents a comparable broad incumbent pediatric delivery system with overlapping pediatric behavioral health capabilities.
• Nationwide Children's Hospital: Nationwide Children's is a large pediatric academic health system with a comprehensive behavioral health service line including inpatient, outpatient, and crisis services. It is a broader incumbent offering similar services to Crittenton as part of a much wider pediatric portfolio.

Direct peers

• KidsPeace: KidsPeace is a nonprofit operating residential treatment, inpatient psychiatric care, and community-based programs for children and adolescents with behavioral and mental health needs. Its mission, service mix, and nonprofit funding model are highly comparable to Crittenton's.
• Boys Town: Boys Town runs residential treatment, in-home family services, and community-based programs for at-risk youth across multiple states. Its continuum of care for children and adolescents — including in-home counseling — directly parallels Crittenton's pediatric behavioral health service model.
• Newport Healthcare: Newport Healthcare provides residential treatment, partial hospitalization, and outpatient programs specifically for adolescents with mental health and co-occurring substance use issues. Its service mix and target population closely mirror Crittenton's residential and outpatient offerings.
• Children's Mercy Hospital: Children's Mercy is the leading independent pediatric health system in Kansas City, offering inpatient, outpatient, and specialty behavioral health services to children and adolescents. It is the most direct competitor to Crittenton in the same metro market and patient population.
• Springstone Behavioral Health: Springstone operates inpatient and outpatient behavioral health hospitals with dedicated adolescent programs across multiple U.S. markets. It competes for similar referral pools in adolescent psychiatry and is a comparable for-profit operator in Crittenton's category.
• Rogers Behavioral Health: Rogers operates a national network of specialty behavioral health hospitals and residential programs with strong adolescent mental health and OCD/eating disorder treatment offerings. It directly competes for residential and inpatient pediatric behavioral health referrals at a multi-region scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crittenton-children's-center

Compliance1 record

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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